XIX век
Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose.
- By Erik McDonald
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly 29 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 3 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
From stanza 31 of Afanasii Fet’s narrative poem The Student (Студент, 1884): Без опыта, без денег и без сил,У чьей груди я мог искать спасенья?Серебряный я кубок свой схватил,Что подарила мать мне в день рожденья,И …
Nekrasov’s poem “The Green Noise” (Зеленый шум, 1862–63) takes us inside the perspective of a peasant man who decides to kill his wife. She voluntarily tells him—he wishes she hadn’t—about something that happened to her …
With another new year, Putin (24-year reign, if you include the tandem of 2008–2012) is catching up to the nineteenth-century rulers Alexander I (also 24 years), Alexander II (26 years), and Nicholas I (30 years). …